Keinan Abdi Warsame (K'naan) Quotes
When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I don't like possessions.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I do big films just to experience personal satisfaction.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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You don't paint pictures to put them in your attic. You want people to look at them.
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Education remains one of the black community's most enduring values. It is sustained by the belief that freedom and education go hand in hand, that learning and training are essential to economic quality and independence.
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Society is the choice between freedom on someone else’s terms and slavery on yours.
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All the money you make, all the awards you win, all the plays you produce, all the things you accomplish - the only thing that will remain is the love and the relationships that are formed in your lifetime.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag
